alt Hacker NewsHow is this different than C#? What new concepts does this bring that C# doesn't?
20 years ago there was some momentum behind Visual Basic .Net; but the language was so similar to C# that it just wasn't worth using. There was a joke that .Net was a "skinnable language."
BTW, there's a whole nitpicky/semantic argument that C# isn't null safe because of the null forgiving operator. That will probably come into play with G# if the null forgiving operator can be used from C# to pass null into G# code that doesn't expect it.
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There was a joke that .Net was a "skinnable language."
I remember the MS documentation had sample code in all the variants of .NET languages they created (C#, F#, VB.NET), and of course there were decompilers that let you choose which one to target, with many other translation tools available between them.
> 20 years ago there was some momentum behind Visual Basic .Net; but the language was so similar to C# that it just wasn't worth using.
IronPython[0] and IronRuby[1] would like a word... Largely so they could be remembered.
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronPython
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IronRuby